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What is the catch here? How can it be cheaper than b2 while essentially offering the same service to the end-user?(geographically distributing data does not dir
by reacharavindh 6y ago
What is the catch here? How can it be cheaper than b2 while essentially offering the same service to the end-user?(geographically distributing data does not directly result in any reduction of costs). It’s okay to say that “we have lower profit margin” than B2, what is it technically that enables this lower cost? , and what are the trade offs made to get there?..
- toolslive 6y agothere are several things you can do. - First, like you indicated is: you can take less margin (and believe me, there's still considerable margin). - You can play with erasure coding policy. (n+10)/n makes that you can tolerate 10 failures. a higher n makes your storage overhead less. (which means more margin) - you can use even fancier storage schemes (fe online codes will make your storage overhead something like 3%) - you can use cheaper hardware. - ...
- wctwct 6y agoManaging a distributed network has a much lower cost structure - no capital investment for hard drives, no electrical cost for running the hard drives, no cooling costs, etc.